Effectiveness

Today a lot of people are concerned with being effecient. What about being effective? I believe it is more important to be effective accomplishing your goals or mission. Sure you can be effecient and effective. But first I would concentrate on being effective first than being efficient.

Keep a full Calender

Why keep a full Calender? I believe having a full calendar keeps you healthy, keeps you active with the community, and helps keep your relationships healthy. I have started to set days out each week for certain events. I have a date night, a social night, study night, family night, Business building, civic, and spiritual. You don't have to use these exact events but you can use this as a guide on how to develop your schedule. For date night it is just me and my wife, no one else. Social night is a time when we will get with our friends, either another couple or a group of friends. Study night is a time in which I will further my education with either a class or self stuffy. Family night is the time in which we will get with our whole family. Business building is when I will go to functions that are related to my line of work, it might be a seminar or a mixer. Civic night we be events that are associated to building and enriching the community in which I live. Then spiritual night/day is where I spend my time furthering my relationship with God. As I mentioned before you don't have to use these days exactly but I do recommend that you develop a consistent schedule for yourself and keep your calender full!

Deliver More

We are all in positions were we are able to give more. If it is in retail, food industry, sales, or even corporate America we all can give you more than what is expected. This can be for the customers, guests, employees, and employers. Using a Pay it Forward philosophy will pay off in the long run. We may not see the return instantaneously or we may never see it at all. Delivering more than expected in a retail environment might get you repeat business from your clients, it may get you referral business for those customers, and it may not lead to anything at all. It does not take much from you to deliver more. It can be a genuine smile, a little extra care in delivering a package, or understanding the needs of the individuals and delivering the solution to their problems. Deliver More and you will be surprised at what will be given in return!!

Goal Setting

Why should we goal set? I am sure this is a thought we have all had. I know I used to have these thoughts. Then I learned the importance and the Power of Goal Setting!! We all know a goal without a date is just a dream. Dreaming is good very good we all used to do this when we were kids. Why did we stop? Is it because we got older? Whatever the case may be it is very important to dream. But lets takes these dreams a step further and make them a goal. Lets put a date to the vacation that we always wanted to go on, buy the second home, car, or college savings fund. What is the best way to do this? There are several techniques out there and you may be using one that works for you. I wont go into great details on mine but I will say the most important aspect of goal setting is setting a date!! Now this date has to be realistic, for instance, if you want to go on a vacation that will cost you 10,000 dollars and you want to go tomorrow. If you don't have 10,000 dollars and the time to go tomorrow then this is not a realistic goal. But least say you do want to go on a vacation that cost 10,000 dollars, lets work backwards to figure out when is a realistic date in which we can go. This 10,000 dollar vacation will enable us to go on a cruise for about 10 days. We can then look at our current budget and find out how much extra we have each month or what we can cut out to set aside "X" amount of dollars for our vacation. Lets say we can put aside 500 dollars a month towards our vacation. simple math tells us this will take 20 months to complete this task. So we can write down that by the year 2010 we will go on a cruise that cost 10,000 dollars. Now this is where the power begins, once you write down you goal, with the date, your subconscious mind goes into action. This part of the brain works all the time, when you are sleeping and when you are awake. Your subconscious will start to devise a plan to get your conscious body to your goal, it will come up with plans to get you to where you want to be. In our case, the 10,000 dollar vacation, our mind will not only help us have the discipline to help save the money and in some cases it will create a plan to help us make more money for our goal. Don't just think that goal setting deals with financial matters or tangible objects, goal setting will also help you with intangible objects as well. So set the dates and let your subconscious mind start working for you!!

If you need more help with goal setting don't hesitate to contact me.

Dont Give Up

Keep going and keep trying. Life is about failing, getting up, and going at it again. Life is like football, you have the offense whose whole purpose is to score a touchdown. Then we have the defense whose whole purpose is to stop the offense from scoring. We are the offense trying to reach our goals and our problems, obstacles, and situations are the defense preventing us from reaching our goals. If we look at football; every snap of the ball the offense intends to score a touchdown, most of the time they don't. But, does the team give up and quit? No, they don't they have at least three more tries to get there. Of course football is a bit more complicated then this analogy but the simple point is this: if you don't score on the first try or hit an unexpected obstacles, don't give up keep going. Get up, dust yourself off, try another play or tactic to get around the obsticles, and eventually you will score!

Sharks dont Bite!

In life we may come across successful people that we want to talk to in order to get some tidbits of information from them. But we don't, why? Is it because we are afraid they will say no, or afraid they will say yes? Either way don't be afraid, successful people don't bite, in fact they do the opposite. They embrace and share. One thing I have learned is that successful people love to share, they love to share ideas and tell people how they got to point B from point A. If you have been itching to ask someone a question and just to afraid, don't be speak up. Successful people don't bite!!!

Leave it on the Field

We have all heard the football analogy of leaving it on the field. This is where a player will give it his all for the game, win or lose. If he wins then he was the better player, he loses then he was not the better player. But he did give it his all and did his best, he just did not win. In life we can take the same approach to all that we do. The morning meeting, the council with clients, the sales call, or a night out with spouse or loved one. By giving it your all and committing to the process you can not be upset with yourself for failing. You did not fail, you were just not the better player. Your day will come. Give it your all, leave it on the field, board room table, or sales office.